To the Finland Station.

To the Finland Station.

Wilson, Edmund.

$1,500.00

Item Number: 3129

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1940.

First edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated by the author. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with a small chip to the top front panel and minor edge wear to the spine crown. A very sharp copy, uncommon signed.

Upon its publication in 1940, Time magazine immediately recognized Wilson's intellectual history: "Because it makes Marxist theory, aims and tactics intelligible to any literate non-Marxist mind, To the Finland Station is an invaluable book." Wilson took six years to write his academic tour-de-force, and "[i]n an age of historical amnesia, To the Finland Station can remind us that our history is alive and open and rich with excitement and promise" (The New York Times Book Review).

First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication, "To Polly Murseh in memory of the New Republic from Edmund Wilson New York Oct. 8, 1952." Fine in a very good dust jacket with a piece of tape to the rear panel.